Category: MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS

Ontario has not called for an end to the practice of compensating the victims of a car accident. However, that Canadian province has chosen to place restrictions on the size of an award for pain and suffering. (more…)

The government of Ontario continues to place stiff fines on any driver that sits behind the steering wheel while under the influence of alcohol. Yet in the past, such fines did not punish those drivers that attempted to pay attention to both the road and some type of distraction. In order to solve that problem, Ontario’s legislative body has passed some new laws. (more…)

Every accident is different. By the same token, no two accident victims (even those in the same vehicle) have the same injury. Still, certain medical problems tend to develop more frequently among accident victims that have been in a motor vehicle collision. (more…)

Personal injury lawyers tend to focus on evidence of negligence, when seeking to determine who was at fault for a given accident. If the lawyer’s client got injured as the result of a slip and fall incident, the injury lawyer in Leamington must seek the answer to certain questions. (more…)

Those men and women that work to maintain the safety of Canadian roads have expressed concern, regarding the increased number of truck accidents. Their research into such collisions has shown that most of the accident involved some type of transport truck. While the nature of the large vehicle that has collided with a smaller vehicle tends to remain the same, not every accident has the same cause. However, contacting the personal injury lawyer in Leamington can help you get the required legal assistance. (more…)

Any resident of Ontario that becomes involved in a car accident can demand access to certain mandatory benefits. Those include money to cover a loss of income, reimbursement of the expenses created by medical care, coverage of rehabilitation costs, the payment of attendants and miscellaneous costs. (more…)

While standard insurance is an obligation in Ontario, that does not mean that you cannot become involved in a motor vehicle collision with an underinsured, uninsured, or unidentified driver. Thus, what do you do when such an incident occurs? Who will compensate you for your injuries? (more…)

When you are involved in an accident caused by somebody else, it is still you who is left with the pain and the medical expenses and the long road to recovery. In a fair world, you would be fairly compensated for these inflicted consequences for which you carry no fault. However, this is not a fair world. (more…)

The Motor Vehicle Act lays out the rules of the road for drivers. If you have had a vehicle accident, several of the sections of the act deal directly with personal injury claims. You are less likely to be responsible for fault as a victim if you follow the rules of the MVA.Below are three important facets of the Motor Vehicle Act: (more…)

The holder of an insurance policy gets support from the insurer, following a car accident. This is true in the case of any insurer, even one that is located in British Columbia. In other words, if a policy holder has been held responsible for a particular collision, the insurance company provides that defendant with a defense team, once the litigation phase has commenced. At that phase, negotiations have ended, and the case proceeds before a judge, in a courtroom. (more…)